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PAGE 3—-The Georgia Bulletin, December 18, 1975
Code Of Ethics Asked
For Charitable Groups
WASHINGTON (NC) - Recent events like the financial
controversy surrounding the Maryland-based province of the
Pallottine Fathers is “sufficient evidence to suggest” that the
Catholic Church might set up a commission to develop a code of
ethics for its own charitable organizations, according to Bishop
Raymond Gallagher of Lafayette, Ind.
Bishop Gallagher, who recently served on a national
commission studying private philanthropy, including churches,
has opposed government regulation of such standards, but said
the private sector should “police” itself.”
The investments of the Pallottine Fathers and the proportion
of their income used for direct mail and other fund-raising
techniques have recently been, questioned. Archbishop William
Borders of Baltimore, where the Immaculate Conception
province of the Pallottines is based, has asked for and been
promised a public audit of the order.
Bishop Gallagher said Archbishop Borders’ action was an
example of the kind of “in-house review” which the Church
could conduct in such cases. He made his comments in a
telephone interview.
Bishop Gallagher suggested that a Church commission might
“make inquiries about fund-raising techniques and distribution
of funds, set some clear moral and ethical standards and
publicize them widely.”
such a commission would' not make accusations against
anyone, he said, but would make clear “what practices are
acceptable and moral and what are not.”
Bishop Gallagher served on the National Commission on
Private Philanthropy and Public Needs, a private commission
which worked in close cooperation with both government and
the private sector, including churches.
During the commission’s deliberations, Bishop Gallagher said,
he heard frequent reference to the situation at Boys Town, a
Catholic institution in Omaha, Neb. Boys Town was severely
criticized several years ago when press reports revealed it had
amassed more than $200 million in funds and investments.
More recently, the LaSallette Fathers based in Attleboro,
Mass., and the diocese of Reno, Nev., were involved in finanical
complications which almost caused the diocese to go bankrupt.
In a recent speech before a meeting of the National Council
on Philanthropy, Bishop Gallagher criticized “parasites and
frauds” on the fringes of charity.
Church Radio Exempt
From Nationalization
In a swift purge of other
media, the Azevedo
government also suspended
six dailies held by Marxists. It
said new editors and staff
would be appointed soon.
Azevedo and President da
Costa Gomes launched the
purge after putting down a
rebellion by Marxist officers
and soldiers at the end of
November.
Exempted also from the
nationalization decree were
Radio Free Europe’s facilities
here, and small-town radio
stations. To forestall control
by extremists of either side,
the decree states that upon
returning to the air these
stations will have to reflect “a
pluralistic policy.”
Marxists used their control
of the electronic media to
incite to rebellion, the
government said.
Renascenca’s management
protested the destruction of
its transmitters on
government orders.
Azevedo said this desperate
move was prompted by the
Marxists’ “provocation
against public peace and
order.”
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LISBON, Portugal (NC) -
The Portuguese government
has exempted the
Church-owned Radio
Renascenca from its decree
nationalizing most radio and
television stations.
Radio Renascenca has been
an object of dispute and a
target of violence since it was
occupied by communist-led
workers early in 1975.
Observers said the
exemption might signal the
eventual return of the
Renascenca facilities to the
bishops.
The government decree,
signed by Premier Pinheiro de
Azevdeo, said the radio’s
exemption from
nationalization was in
compliance with “provisions
of the concordat between
Portugal and the Holy See.”
The concordat deals, among
other things, with Church
property.
The nationalization of
radio and television has
resulted in the firing of more
than 80 extreme leftists,
including those occupying
Radio Clube.
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children under its care.
Council Of Churches Assembly Ends
NAIROBI, Kenya (NC) -
The World Council of
Churches (WCC) ended its
17-day fifth assembly by
adopting positions placing it
squarely in the midst of
struggles for human rights,
ecumenical efforts toward
“visible unity” of the
churches, and dialogue with
other cultures and faiths.
Like the U.S. Congress
facing a logjam of legislation
before adjournment, the
assembly gave final approval
to reports from its sections
on “Structures of Injustice
and Struggles for Liberation,”
“Human Development,
Ambiguities of Power,
Technology and the Quality
of Life,’’ “Seeking
Community - the Common
Search of People of Various
Faiths,” and “Education for
Liberation and Community”.
Earlier sessions had
adopted the main statements
arising from other subtheme
studies of the principal
assembly theme, “Jesus
Christ Frees and Unites.”
These were “Confessing
Christ Today,” and “What
Unity Requires.” On its final
day, the assembly took up
the recommendations
appended to these two
documents.
A series of program
guidelines, a six-point
statement urging church
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MORRISTOWN, N.J. (NC)
Superior Court Judge
Robert Muir, Jr. has accepted
the resignation of Daniel R.
Cobum as guardian of Karen
Quinlan and named another
lawyer to replace him.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Quinlan, parents of the
21-year-old woman who lies
in a coma in St. Clare
Hospital, Denville, had sought
Coburn’s removal, charging
him with a “hostile” attitude.
A hearing on their request set
for December 12 was not
held.
Meanwhile, the Quinlans
will pursue a U.S. Supreme
Court appeal from Judge
Muir’s November 10 decision
that denied them permission
to remove their daughter
from the respirator that has
kept her alive since last April.
members to overcome a
“false sense of importance”
about disarmament, and
resolutions on the Indonesian
military incursion into Timor
and on the Holy Places of
Jerusalem, were featured in
the closing hours.
The resolution on
Jerusalem read in part:
“While recognizing the
complexity and emotional
implications of the issues
surrounding the future status
of Jerusalem, the assembly
believes that such status has
to be determined within the
general context of the Middle
East Conflict in its
totality . . .
“Apart from any politics,
the whole settlement of the
interreligious problem of the
Holy Places should take place
under an international aegis
and guarantee which ought to
be respected by the parties
concerned as well as the
ruling authorities.”
The assembly
recommended that
negotiations for a solution
include the most directly
concerned member-churches
and the Roman Catholic
Church.
“These issues should also
become subjects for dialogue
with Jewish and Moslem
counterparts,” it said.
The delegates, in a
spectacular liturgy
incorporating their message,
wound up with evening
departure prayers in the
lighted plaza of the Kenyatta
Conference Center.
The document on
structures of injustice
concentrated on human
rights, sexism and racism.
It recommended increased
support for the controversial
Program to Combat Racism
(which has been accused of
supporting armed violence
and revolution), efforts to get
women into all decision-mak
ing bodies of the churches,
and aid to groups harrassed or
imprisoned for defending
human rights.
The statment on seeking
community with other faiths
- input in this also came from
Hindu, Moslem, Jewish and
Sikh guests - advised that
instead of allowing their faith
to add to religious divisions,
they must seek a wider
community.
The development state
ment has run into criticism for
virtually overlooking the
world food crisis and the
sanctity of life. Rewritten, it
urged the churches to
participate in development
programs, undertake social
responsibilities related to
scientific advances and
involve themselves in
education for liberation.
The recommendations
proposed almost 40 points
outlining how the churches
could provide cross-cultural
and interreligious education
and eliminate bias about sex
and race from teaching
materials.
Proposals adopted after
earlier substantive approval of
“confessing Christ Today”
admonished the churches to
adapt “their own cultural,
political, economic and
church structures” in such a
way that “the whole Gospel
may be proclaimed to all
persons in every situation.”
Specifics adopted to carry
out “What, Unity Requires”
asked churches to work
toward “visible unity” by
such activity as a “common
effort to confess Christian
truth,” and efforts toward a
“fuller sharing among the
churches of experience,
personnel, resources and
support.”
Program guidelines pressed
the WCC’s 286 member
churches - Protestant,
Anglican, Eastern Orthodox
and Old Catholic - to become
communities “generating
hope, r e c onciliation,
liberation and justice.”
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Charismatics Hear Archbishop
At Christ The King Cathedral
s—.—
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The
following is the text of the homily
of Archbishop Thomas A.
Donnellan delivered Saturday,
December 6, at the Cathedral of
Christ the King at a Mass for
Charismatics.)
the community of those
followers of Christ who serve
Him in the Catholic faith and
tradition, must above all
things also be a community
of hope and joy. Your
presence here this evening is
for me a reason for hope, and
a source and manifestation of
joy. The scripture readings
for the Mass of the Second
Sunday of Advent have an
obvious appropriateness for
the charismatic prayer groups
of the Archdiocese. Your
devotion to the Holy Spirit
gives added relevance to these
readings. In addition, our joy
is increased by the closeness
of our gathering to the
glorious Feast of the
Immaculate Conception.
Isaiah and his “Prepare the
way of the Lord, make
straight His paths,” delivers a
message that can be fulfilled
only by the power of the
Spirit Who alone fills in the
valley of our selfishness with
His overflowing generosity
and care for others; Who
brings down every mountain
and hill of our pride with His
powerful gift of humility.
Then Saint Peter gives us a
strong teaching, obviously of
the Hoiy Spirit, namely, that
we must see Our Father’s
patience with us for what it is
— the patient waiting of one
Who loves us beyond our
wildest dreams, but expects
us to put aside childish ways:
“You should live holy and
saintly lives” he says — Holy
and saintly - how can we
live that way except by the
power of His very own Spirit.
But also how can His Spirit
find us ready and available to
be made holy and saintly if
we abuse Our Father’s
patience with us by refusing
to acknowledge our sin, and
enter into repentance.
Which is what John the
Baptist comes preaching to us
in the Gospel. But what is
striking about John is not the
message so much, for it is
Isaiah’s message restated.
What is critically important
about John is his humility.
Strong and strident preacher
of repentance, humble man
who knew and acknowledged
his limits and who clearly
pointed his life to the coming
of another.
You, who are members of
a Charismatic Prayer Group,
must keep in mind that above
all you are members of the
community of God’s People
who accept His Word in the
fullest sense possible. We
accept the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit. We
accept the Church founded
by Christ. The Bishops of the
United States, in their
“Pastoral on the Church in
Our Day,” have made some
memorable and enduring
statements. I quote: “Jesus
lives undiminished . . .in that
Church which celebrates the
sacraments, proclaims the
creeds, assembles the
Councils, worships the
Father, offers the Body of
the Lord in her liturgy, and
lives by the unfailing Spirit of
God.” Again in the same
Pastoral: “The Holy Spirit is
given in His fullness only to
the community. No one
member, or one structure in
the Church receives the Spirit
for itself alone.” In the Holy
Trinity, not only are all
things made, as we say in the
Creed, but all things are
remade, chiefly ourselves. It
is in accord with our status as
members of the Body of
Christ which is the Church
that we come together to
open ourselves to the fullness
of the coming of the Spirit.
After our Baptism, hands
were laid on us . . .in a sealing
or completion of the original
gift of the Spirit. In ancient
days in the Church, the
sealing in the Spirit which is
the Sacrament of
Confirmation, preceded the
first reception of the
Eucharist. For we presume to
commemorate the Passion,
Resurrection and Ascension
of the Lord in the Mass as
members of the household of
Faith, and as Christians
signed and sealed with the
Spirit. Which is why the
humility preached and
manifested by John the
Baptist is so necessary if we
are to be truly Spirit-filled; if
we are to live lives holy and
saintly. Only in a calm and
determined openess to the
truth can the Advocate
Whom Jesus sends us, tells us
where judgement and justice
lie.
In the midst of these
Advent days, we celebrate a
feast in honor of Our Blessed
Mother Mary. In her, all the
themes of today’s Scripture
readings come together. In
her, the Father certainly
prepared the way for His Son,
finding in her a holy woman
whose readiness to be open to
His plan was such that she
never tried His patience,
never kept Him waiting, but
instead lived the holy and
saintly life to which Peter
exhorts us. In her, the words
of the Baptist were already
realized as he spoke them:
“There is one%coming after
who is greater than I.” Mary
knew this only through the
humble submission of Faith,
and her docility and openness
to the Will of God as His plan
unfolded offers us a vivid and
living example. In Mary the
Charismatic finds not only an
Advent model, but one for all
days, all time, all seasons. She
is the one who stood so
humbly open to the power of
the Spirit, that in fact Jesus
was formed in her. Her
unconditional “Yes” to Our
Father enabled Him to have
His way with her... to
prepare the way of His Son,
to give us a way to Eternal
Life. The challenge for us is
to allow precisely the same to
happen to us.
This is what Advent is
about. That is what praying
in the Spirit is about. That is
precisely why you are a
community of hope and joy.
May I close then with an
exhortation from the Pastoral
of the American Bishops:
“We who are the Church
on Earth, though we be saints
in promise . . .have not yet
appeared with Christ in
glory. . . .Therefore, we must
love the Church, as we love
nothing else save only God, if
the Spirit of God is to dwell
in our midst, redeeming the
times, and renewing the face
of the earth. Saint Augustine
says it exactly and
unforgettably:
‘“We too receive the Holy
Spirit if we love the Church,
if we are unified by charity, if
we enjoy the Catholic name
and faith. Let us believe it,
brethren, in the measure that
each of us loves the Church,
he has the Holy Spirit.”
Corpus Christi Adult Education
The second of three cycles
of aduit education at Corpus
Christi Church, Stone
Mountain, starts the first
week of the new year and
runs through the week of
February 19. Registration for
classroom courses will take
place in the Parish Center on
Sunday, December 28 and
Sunday, January 4. All are
invited to register or attend
without registration as many
day or evening sessions as
they can.
The topics and teachers of
the Wednesday morning and
Thursday evening courses are:
“The Church Through The
Centuries”, Father Richard
Lopez; “Teenagers And
Adults”, Father Frank
Giusta; “Teaching The
Heart”, a course on Christian
personality development, Mr.
Tom Walsh; “God Bless My
Truck”, on how to teach
religion to pre-schoolers, Mrs.
Ann Boltz, Wednesday
morning only; a course by
Mr. Richard Await, Thursday
evening only; “Little People,
Big People and Believing”, on
teaching Christianity, Sister
Linda Valasik; “Grade Level
Learning For Religious
Education Teachers”, Sister
Linda Valasik.
Father Lopez will also
conduct a course on basic
Catholic teachings on
Tuesday evenings and an
informal course on the
Scriptures at noon on
Thursdays.
In addition to these
structured courses the First
Friday Night Adult
Education Specials including
Mass will continue. The
January 2 Special will cover
the Church and the Laity
since Vatican II.
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